Never say die
HENRY Kissinger, often viewed as a war criminal, marked his 100th birthday last Saturday amid the usual accolades of the high and mighty, alongside a few barbs from others with…
‘Noli me tangere’
THE term ‘untouchable’ has a different connotation in each culture and religion. To Christians, the words noli me tangere are attributed to Jesus Christ who, after his resurrection, deterred his…
Propaganda in films is old hat
ISRAELI filmmaker Nadav Lapid and all foreign members of the jury at the film festival in Goa have criticised The Kashmir Files in separate interviews. It was a propaganda film…
The eastern rivers
CLIMATE change has made the South Asian monsoon evermore unpredictable. Heavy rains in the catchment areas of the Beas, Ravi and Sutlej rivers deep inside India have flooded Pakistan’s Punjab province. It…
Too famished to sing paeans
A QUAINT Hindi metaphor nicely describes the results from the Karnataka state polls that saw Prime Minister Modi’s religious bigotry roundly thwarted. “Bhookhe bhajan na hoey, Gopala.” In other words:…
‘One as beautiful as you’
CRITICALLY important national institutions always need persons who may be said to embody its aspirations, essence and experience. The Pakistan Foreign Service is one such institution. It has been fortunate…
Framed in selective memories
PANDIT Nehru had all the time for Josh Malihabadi, but there was some particular matter he asked the revolutionary poet to consult Maulana Azad on. The two were very different…
Listening to the rumblings?
A PEOPLE’S movement is underway in Israel against its ultra right-wing government. Prime Minister Netanyahu is trying to subvert the judiciary’s neutrality, with a selfish aim to kill the criminal…
‘Repulsive’ & ‘primitive’
HISTORY is revealed quite slowly in the US. This is particularly true of its presidential history. Long, painstakingly compiled records of telephone calls, conversations, memos and everything else imaginable from…
Not cricket
OUR enemies must be chortling at the spectacle of us, a nuclear power, at war with itself. Survey the battlefield. Our president — the human symbol of our nation —…
